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>The average young person moving to San Francisco today may no longer be a hitchhiker escaping a conservative town in search of art, free-thinking, and mind-alt
by almost_usual 8y ago
>The average young person moving to San Francisco today may no longer be a hitchhiker escaping a conservative town in search of art, free-thinking, and mind-altering drugs. Instead, they are more likely a recent graduate from a top college who has survived a five day interview process with a large tech firm, moving into a corporate sponsored condo in Mission Bay they’ll see 15 hours a week. The much hyped death of art and culture in the Bay Area may have led to many musicians moving to LA or Portland and artist collectives and shared spaces closing down due to an invasion of start up money and astronomical rents. But all of that hasn’t quenched the city’s thirst for getting off, getting weird or finding new ways to connect. Whether that be through cacao, eye contact, or cuddles, or some other kind of kink, the Valley—for all its known faults—isn't vanilla.
Rapacious capitalists have to do something when bored..
- Fellshard 8y ago* secularists When you remove religion of any kind, that void does get filled, and in this case worship of sex is not uncommon, harkening back to thousands of years of deeply sexual pagan practice.
- ergothus 8y agoSounds like sex is a deeply emotional practice for human which intersects with any faith, rather than being a consequence of LACK of religion. (those pagan practices you cite WERE religious, after all). Several (all?) prominent religions are certainly opinionated on when and how one should and should not have sex.
- Fellshard 8y agoMore that those pagan practices were simply personifications to justify the behavior (religions built from the inside desires out), in contrast to religions that prescribe constraints from the outside in. All that's been done now is removing the external personification from the justification.
- stcredzero 8y agoWhen you remove religion of any kind, that void does get filled Intersectionality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_bQTxNT-K8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_bQTxNT-K8
- dang 8y ago"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html